Bride Rose Sweeney News

State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today announced the passage of House Bill (HB) 1, the Fair School Funding Plan, as an amendment to HB 110, the biennial state operating budget. Sweeney’s bipartisan legislation jointly sponsored with Rep. Jamie Callender (R-Concord), HB 1 addresses many of the issues that have plagued the state’s school funding system, which the Ohio Supreme Court has found unconstitutional four times, beginning with the DeRolph decision in 1997. 

COLUMBUS — State Reps. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) and Al Cutrona (R-Canfield) testified Wednesday on House Bill (HB) 163, legislation that prohibits mandatory overtime work for nurses as a condition of employment. The bipartisan bill passed the previous General Assembly by a vote of 80-13.

House Democratic lawmakers Reps. Juanita Brent (D-Cleveland), Janine Boyd (D-Cleveland Heights), Jeffrey A. Crossman (D-Parma), Stephanie Howse (D-Cleveland), Phil Robinson (D-Solon), Michael Skindell (D-Lakewood), Kent Smith (D-Euclid), Monique Smith (D-Fairview Park), Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland), and Terrence Upchurch (D-Cleveland) issued the following statement as the Biden administration announced today that Cleveland State’s Wolstein Center has been chosen as a mass vaccination site, with the ability to administer 6,000 vaccine doses each day over eight weeks beginning March 17. 

State Reps. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) and Michele Lepore-Hagan (D-Youngstown) today announced legislation requiring multiple secure ballot drop boxes, based on geography and population, to ensure a fair and equitable voting process. Current law permits multiple secure ballot drop boxes despite the Ohio Secretary of State’s choice to restrict them in the face of several court decisions.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today announced that House Bill (HB) 591 successfully passed the Ohio House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 93 to 1.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today issued another statement regarding an Ohio law banning election officials from collaborating with nongovernmental persons or entities on any election-related activity. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today voted in favor of House Bill (HB) 377, bipartisan legislation to release the second, $442 million batch of local government funding from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan to Ohio’s cities, villages and townships serving 50,000 people or less

COLUMBUS – State Reps. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) and Sharon Ray (R-Wadsworth) today announced the introduction of House Bill (HB) 673, their bipartisan legislation appropriating $7.5 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to acquire and update electronic poll books for county boards of elections. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today announced the unanimous passage of House Bill (HB) 591 out of the Ohio House Health Committee. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) announced this week that the State Controlling Board approved over $230 million to support education in Ohio.

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today announced that House Bill (HB) 119 was signed into law by Gov. DeWine as an amendment to HB 291. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today introduced House Bill (H.B.) 618 to help Ohio workers take advantage of the U.S. Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. The legislation establishes a navigator pilot program and requires clear, concise information to be published online. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today announced that the $2 billion capital re-appropriations budget for fiscal years 2023-24 has been signed into law. The legislation, House Bill (HB) 597, is a timely measure that complies with the Ohio Constitution’s two-year limit on appropriations. It was voted out of the House Finance Committee, 22-0, where Rep. Sweeney is the Ranking Member. 

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) announced that the State Controlling Board approved over $96 million in additional funding for the Bridge Formula Program from the recently passed federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.